Abstract

The equipment and methods used in the successful rearing of myrmecophilous stages of Lepidochrvsops methymna methymna (Trimen) and L. trimeni (Bethune-Baker) are descriptionbed. Details are given of the formicarium used to house a colony of the host ant Campanatus maculatus (Fabricius) and of the methods employed in establishing and maintaining the ants and in introducing the lycaenid larvae to them.